The perfect "gentletroll" procedure in that situation is to offer a draw. If the opponent manages to accept, then you are the perfect sportsman. Otherwise the offer might allow you to gain that one more crucial second on the opponent's clock, with the distraction it causes, and you are then a perfect troll. A win win situation, I think they call it? Not resigning in those situations is the standard behaviour on the net, anyway. Thanks for your videos!
Simon, you should add the bongcloud to your weird and wacky openings repertoire. www.chessmastery.com/bongcloud.pdf The black lion looks like a variation of the philidor by transposition. The shuffle duck, on the other hand, looks nothing short of total awesome sauce.
blitz chess seems like a frat party amongst drunken physics students....have fun, take your chances amidst the chaos, don't take this shit too seriously..... and play like a hungry shark , oh, and have fun....
Good thing you didnt resign, time's a factor as well and if your opponent doesn't find the mate in time he doesn't deserve the win (or the draw, for that matter). For people who can't live with that there are games with increments.
"Rat defense" probably refers mostly to irregular, non-pirc (since the pirc is defined by 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3) openings beginning with 1. ... d6. I had a laundry list of examples lined up, but then I accidentally deleted my original comment, and I don't want to put the work in again, so you're just going to have to use Google.
I didn't know that pawns had names. Well, I might as well name them according to their files. Harry, George, Fielding, Edward, Drake, Cambridge, Buckley and Alfred. The names of course may vary according to nationality, thus for Spain, Hernando, Guillermo, etc.
I thought the Reverse Grob was the Borg? Horrible joke. Basman is a great eccentric English chess player, made famous by his choice of bizarre chess openings and authorship of the most openings book ever written: the imaginatively titled "Chess Openings" in which he, disappointingly, covers the QGD, Nimzo-Indian, Dragon and something equally banal, never once illustrating key points with master games, rather his poor attempts at them from his Junior years.
Super instructive AND entertaining. As always. Thanks, Simon!
love your shuffleduck dance lol!
Was good and instructive to watch you play and the tactics behind the moves.
When's your DVD on the Delayed-Madman Tromp Gambit coming out? :D
+Simon Williams (Ginger GM) are you taking pre-orders? ;)
+leerobbo92 It's the Shuffle Duck I'm looking forward to.... ;)
leerobbo92 PoppytheCat Gambit is imminent
Thank you for the long video! It's really a great pleasure watching you playing :)
Long live that shuffle duck... shuffling his way to victory
You're absolutely brilliant to watch Mr. Ginger GM! Go Harry and Derek haha :D
"obviously fearful" LMAO.... hahahaha
That reverse Grob (at 35:00) is also called the Borg Defense. Resistance is futile.
I was watching the video thinking, would he play the Grob? Yep, he's doing it ( but reverse)
The perfect "gentletroll" procedure in that situation is to offer a draw.
If the opponent manages to accept, then you are the perfect sportsman.
Otherwise the offer might allow you to gain that one more crucial second on the opponent's clock, with the distraction it causes, and you are then a perfect troll.
A win win situation, I think they call it?
Not resigning in those situations is the standard behaviour on the net, anyway.
Thanks for your videos!
Mato is great, but this guy is at a different level !!
".... this d6 move is a really, should we say, WET way of playing ..." I'm definitely using this one :D
It's funny, when Simon played 3...Ng8, I looked at my chess program and it gives 4.Bc1 as a book move. LOL.
Simon, you should add the bongcloud to your weird and wacky openings repertoire. www.chessmastery.com/bongcloud.pdf
The black lion looks like a variation of the philidor by transposition. The shuffle duck, on the other hand, looks nothing short of total awesome sauce.
blitz chess seems like a frat party amongst drunken physics students....have fun, take your chances amidst the chaos, don't take this shit too seriously..... and play like a hungry shark , oh, and have fun....
NEVER surrender! Whats the fun in that... Also its way more satisfying to earn a win, rather than someone just hand it to you...
Good thing you didnt resign, time's a factor as well and if your opponent doesn't find the mate in time he doesn't deserve the win (or the draw, for that matter). For people who can't live with that there are games with increments.
"The Black Lion"? I heard that 1.e4 d6 one was called the Rat Defence ;)
"Rat defense" probably refers mostly to irregular, non-pirc (since the pirc is defined by 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3) openings beginning with 1. ... d6. I had a laundry list of examples lined up, but then I accidentally deleted my original comment, and I don't want to put the work in again, so you're just going to have to use Google.
You can find them by searching "rat defense" on chess.com.
I didn't know that pawns had names. Well, I might as well name them according to their files. Harry, George, Fielding, Edward, Drake, Cambridge, Buckley and Alfred. The names of course may vary according to nationality, thus for Spain, Hernando, Guillermo, etc.
haha that story at 0:22 :)
Come on, Harry!
Much better this time around Simon. In time, you could make a name for yourself :)
Hehe. Its a wet move because he's nemo. 15:35
Simon, if you lose a game, just sing a song.;)
Play the Polish opening!
I thought the Reverse Grob was the Borg? Horrible joke. Basman is a great eccentric English chess player, made famous by his choice of bizarre chess openings and authorship of the most openings book ever written: the imaginatively titled "Chess Openings" in which he, disappointingly, covers the QGD, Nimzo-Indian, Dragon and something equally banal, never once illustrating key points with master games, rather his poor attempts at them from his Junior years.